"He's the most wanted criminal in the world, at this point, so he has to lay low," the actor said at the TCA press tour.

"But I do hope when you see him for the first time, it will be interesting."

Despite Lewis's initial absence from the series, the Brody family will continue to appear on Homeland.

"[We thought], 'Are we interested in watching the Brody family if Nicholas Brody wasn't part of the mix?' - and the consensus was there is interest in Jessica (Morena Baccarin), Dana (Morgan Saylor) and Chris (Jackson Pace).